Providence hit with lawsuit for failing to provide reasonable accommodations to pregnant employees
SEATTLE — Washington Attorney General Nick Brown sued Providence Health & Services on Wednesday, May 13, accusing the state’s largest health care provider of repeatedly denying pregnant and nursing employees the reasonable workplace accommodations required by state law. “Taking commonsense steps to keep pregnant and nursing employees and their babies safe and healthy isn’t optional […]
WA Supreme Court rules “Necessity Clause” shields new income tax law from voter referendum
OLYMPIA [JERRY CORNFIELD & JAKE GOLDSTEN-STREET]—Washington’s Supreme Court on Monday, May 4, denied Let’s Go Washington’s, a conservative political committee, request to pursue an attempt to repeal the state’s new income tax law with a referendum this fall. The opposition can still move forward with an initiative to overturn the tax on millionaire earners. But […]
Ferguson, Brown seek injunction against GEO Group to allow inspections at Tacoma ICE facility
TACOMA — Gov. Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nick Brown announced Tuesday they are asking a federal court to order The GEO Group to allow Washington Department of Health inspectors into the Northwest ICE Processing Center, the private immigration detention facility the company operates in Tacoma. The presser took place in front of the Northwest […]
AG Brown sues Albertsons, Safeway, and Haggen for deceptive ‘buy one get one free’ deals
OLYMPIA — Washington Attorney General Nick Brown filed a consumer protection lawsuit on April 27 alleging that Albertsons Companies, the corporate owner of Safeway, Albertsons, and Haggen grocery stores, systematically overcharged Washington consumers in more than 3 million transactions over a five-year period through misleading “buy one get one free” (BOGO) promotions. “We’re not going […]
Dumped ballots raise fresh doubts about vote-by-mail security and chain of custody
BELLEVUE—Hundreds of undelivered, mostly blank ballots from multiple election cycles were discovered in February 2026 next to a dumpster behind a Renton strip mall, later turned over to Washington State Republican Party Chairman Jim Walsh and are now under federal investigation by U.S. Postal Inspectors, with the FBI expressing interest. The discovery of almost 500 […]
WA clashes in court with prediction market platforms Kalshi and Robinhood
[JAKE GOLDSTEIN-STREET]—Washington sued the online prediction market platform Kalshi last week with claims that the company is violating state gambling laws. Now, one of Kalshi’s partners is biting back. Robinhood this week sued the state to preemptively protect its ability to continue offering shares in the outcome of everything from sporting events to politics and […]
Trump signs new citizenship verification and mail ballot tracking executive order, Hobbs objects
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J Trump signed an executive order on March 31 directing federal agencies to compile lists of confirmed U.S. citizens for each state and to impose new tracking requirements on mail-in and absentee ballots sent through the U.S. Postal Service. Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs responded the same day, saying […]
Transwomen barred from Olympic female categories in historic IOC decision
LAUSANNE, Switzerland —The International Olympic Committee published a new policy Thursday that protects the female category in Olympic competition by limiting the female category to biological females only. IOC President Kirsty Coventry, a former Olympic swimmer from Zimbabwe and the first African woman to serve as president, announced the framework after she established a review […]
New targeted tax in WA aims to keep coal power plant shut down
OLYMPIA [TOM BANSE]—Tax legislation Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed Wednesday targets the last coal-fired power plant in the Pacific Northwest. But if the coal tax and a related climate pollution fee work as the Legislature intended, the state treasury will never collect a dime under the new law. That is because the idled Centralia, Washington, generating […]
‘Bloody Sunday’ 61 years later: AG Brown honors the sacrifices that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
SELMA, Ala.— Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown joined civil rights leaders and elected officials in Selma, Alabama, this weekend to commemorate the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, participating in a panel discussion on voting rights and marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to honor the sacrifices that led to the Voting Rights Act of […]
